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Don't know if this has been addressed elsewhere in the thread...
The phonetician in me is screaming. I'm assuming you're talking about Faux-Londonengers dropping their 't's and substituting them with glottal stops. Dropping the glottal stop would result in a diphthong contructed of the vowel sounds which would be next to each other.
I am a firm supporter of glottal stops, if only to stop the pernicious spread of US-inflected speech, and its rubbish smug-sounding alveolar tap/flap eg. "riding a bike is bedder* for the environment than driving a car."
*an alveolar tap/flap is not the same thing as 'dd', but this is the best approximation in non-IPA orthography.
Time for lunch.